Giacomo Fauser

Giacomo Fauser (born January 11, 1892 in Novara , † December 7, 1971 there ) was an Italian engineer and chemist .

life and work

Giacomo Fauser's parents were Felice Fauser and his wife Luigia, née Bellini. He studied mechanical engineering at the Milan Polytechnic , where he graduated on December 23, 1918. The study of mechanical engineering at that time included the planning, construction and management of chemical plants. He carried out his first work in his father's foundry , where he developed an electrolysis cell for the production of oxygen for welding purposes.

Since the electricity consumption was also fully charged at night and on public holidays, the electrolysis produced during the times when the foundry was not working. He wanted to use the hydrogen produced as a by-product of electrolysis as a raw material for ammonia synthesis. This was of fundamental importance for the production of agricultural nitrogen fertilizers.

Guido Donegani , the President of Montecatini , provided the necessary capital for the development of an ammonia synthesis with electrolytically produced hydrogen. In May 1921, Fauser, Ettore Conti di Verampio , President of Imprese Elettriche Conti & C., and Montecatini founded the Novarese Electrochemical Society and built a plant in Novara for the industrial production of ammonia using the Fauser-Montecatini process .

literature

• Giovanni Pieri: Giacomo Fauser: La passione per la ricerca scientifica e per il bene dell'umanità . Interlinea, 2014, ISBN 978-8882129583

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruno Waeser: The nitrogen industry with consideration of the Chilean industry and coke oven nitrogen , Springer, 1932, ISBN 978-3-662-34599-3 , p. 142.